Joel, 68, told the Tampa Bay Times earlier this month that he didn’t think he would still be performing at this age. “I thought once you got to be, I think, 50, you gotta quit rock and roll; you’re too old for this thing. This is a kids’ job,” he told the paper’s Jay Cridlin. “But these other people kept pushing the envelope. The Stones kept going, McCartney kept going, Dylan kept going. The Eagles are still going. All these bands are still rocking out, and it’s, ‘Wait a minute, so who says you gotta retire?’ This is what I do. I’ve come to understand that this is who I am. This is what I do. And it’s probably keeping me alive.”